Powder-container.



J. MACDONALD.

POWDER CDNTMNER'.

APPucATloN man ocT.3. |911.

Eatented June 11, 191D.

JAMES MACDONALD, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

POWDER-CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented dl une 11, 11918..

Application led October 3, 1917. Serial No. 194,547.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES MACDONALD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Powde Container, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to toilet articles, and its object is to provide a new and improved container more especially designed for containing rouge in powder form, face powder, and other toilet or complexion powders, and arranged to prevent spilling of the powder on opening of the box, and to permit free and economical use of the powder when dipping it up out of the box with a puff or similar device.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a box having a removable cover and filled with the complexion powder, and a sieve of flexible material extending over the top of the powder and having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the said side being fastened to the box.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a portion of the powder container during the process of making it;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same showing a subsequent step in the process of making the powder container;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same showing the mode of lling the box with the complexion powder; y

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the filled powder container with parts shown in section;

Fig. 5 is aside elevation of a portion of the lled powder container with the cover removed and the protecting seal partly torn oft'- Fign vis a sectional side elevation of a portion of the powder container after a portion of the complexion powder has been removed; i

vFig. 7 is a plan view of a portion of the seal; and

Fig. 8 is a similar view of a portion of the seal flexible sieve. i

The container consists essentially of a box body A10,.preferably of 1 cylindrical form,

such as rouge in powder form, face powderor the like, and over thetop of the powder extends a sieve 14, preferably made of liexible material such as gauze or other open mesh textile fabric. The sieve 14 is provided with an integral side 15 extending down along the inner face of the box body 10 to then pass around the lower edge of the said box body with the terminal 16 of the said side 15 glued or otherwise fastened tothe outer face of the box body 10, as plainly shown in Fig. 4. The bottom 11 is next fastened in place by gluing or pasting it to the box body 10. A cup-shaped seal 17 of tissue or other thin paper overlies the sieve 14 and has its side 18 extending loosely between the inner face of the box body 10 and the side 15 of the sieve 14. The margin of the side 18 of the seal 17 is provided with integral tabs or flanges 19 bent around the lower edge of the box body 10 and glued or pasted to the outside of the box body 10. The seal prevents the powder 13 from sifting through the sieve 14 so that during transportation the powder is prevented from sifting through the sieve 14 into the unoccupied space under the cover 12. The seal 17 is preferably provided with a paper pull 2O to permit the user to readily tear off the top of the seal after first removing the cover (see Fig. 5) to gain access to the complexe ion powder 13. The seal 17 and the pull 20 are preferably provided with legends indicating instructions and advertising matter.

In order to prevent undue slack in the sieve on gradually using up the powder 13, use is made of a compensating ring 25, preferably made of paper, and arranged loosely within the box body 10 adjacent the innerV face of the sieve side 15. r1`his compensating ring is within the upper portion` of the box body 10 when the latter is filled with the complexion powder (see Fig. 4) andit gradually moves downward on removing the powder from the container (see Fig. 6), thus allowing the sieve to follow the surface of the powder as the latter is gradually removed from the container by the user.

In manufacturing the container and lh when the cover ing it with powder, l proceed as follows, special reference being had to Figs. 1 and 3. The box body 10 is set on top of a flat support 30 having a concave recess 31 in register with the box body 10, as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. A piece of tissue paper for forming the seal 17 and a piece of open mesh fabric for forming the sieve 14 are superimposed and placed across the upper edge of the box body 10 with the tissue paper undermost. The disk-shaped piece of seal paper is somewhat less in diameter than the disk-shaped piece of sieve material but the terminal edges of the tabs or flanges 19 of the seal paper extend to the peripheral edge of the sieve material. plunger 32 is now moved downward onto the piece of sieve material to press the middle portion thereof and that of the seal paper down in the box body 10 and onto the bottom of the concave recess 31. The piece of textile sieve material is of a su'licient size to formv the top 111, the side 15 and the terminal 1G which projects beyond the top of the box body 10 and is bent vover the now upper edge of the box body 10 and glued or pasted to the outer face thereof together with the tabs or flanges 19 of the seal 17. The plunger 23 is next withdrawn and the compensating ring 25 is now inserted (see Fig. 2) and then the powder 13 is placed into the box body 10, as shown in Fig. 3, after which the box bottom 11 is placed in position and fastened to the box body 10 with the terminal 16 and tabs 19 intermediate the box body 10 and the side of the bottom 11. The support 30 with the filled box body thereon is now placed into upside down position, after which the support 3() is removed and the cover 12 is now removably engaged with the upper portion of the box body 10 to close the container. It is understood that the top of the seal 17 overlies the top of the sieve 111-, and the compensating ring 25 is within the upper portion of the container and held in this position by the powder within the container.

When it is desired to remove the powder 13 from the container, the user first removes the cover 12 and then tears off the top of the seal 17 (see Fig. 5) after which the user presses a pulf or similar device down onto the sieve 14 to cause some of the powder to pass through the meshes of the sieve onto the powder puil to be transferred by the pulf to the face or other part to be powdered. It will be noticed that the sieve allows but a small portion of the powder to pass through its meshes to be taken up by the puff and hence undue waste of the powder Vis prevented. It will also be noticed that 12 is removed the sieve prevents the powder from flying out of the box Dwing to the suction incident to the removal if the cover. The top of the seal 17 after being removed cannot be replaced to original position and hence it serves as a seal to prevent the abstraction of the powder by unauthorized persons. As the emptying of the container proceeds the compensating ring moves gradually downward and thus prevents an undue slack in the sieve.

The container shown and described is especially serviceable in holding rouge in powder form and allowing the "removal of small quantities of the same at a time by the use of a puff or similar device.

lt is understood that heretofore dry rouge was made in cake form owing to the difliculty of controlling or taking up dry rouge when in powder form, it being` necessary to use the smallest quantity at the time, but even with the greatest care large particles became detached and resulted in excessive use. There are a great many difficulties in manufacturing rouge cakes properly, this being a well guarded trade secret, and should the cake be too soft it crumbles in handling, and if too hard it is of no practical use. Undesirable ingredients have to be added to the rouge to enable the making of cakes from original powders. After machine pressing and drying these cakes are fastened to porcelain or glass disks which in turn are glued to the bottom of a box or a similar container. With the use of the sieve above described, the above diiliculties are overcome and rouge in powder form can be readily filled into the box and freely and economically used.

It will also be noticed that the sieve tends to keep the powder compact and prevents evaporation of the perfume contained in the powder.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. As an article of manufacture, a container holding a powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and filled with powder, and a sieve of flexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the tinner facel of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box.

2. A container for powder, comprising a box filled with a powder, having a side, a cupsshaped bottom and a cupsshaped` cover, the bottom being exteriorly secured to the lower portion of the said box side and the said cover fitting removably and exteriorly on the upper portion of the said side, and a sieve of flexible material extending across the top of the powder and having an integral side extending down along the inner face of the said box side and around the lower edge thereof, the terminal portion of the sieve extending upward between the said side and the ,box bottom.

3. A container for powder, comprising a box having a removable cover and adapted to be filled with powder, and a sieve of a textile open mesh fabric having a convex top extending over the top of the powder, the sieve having an integral side extending loosely downward along the inner face of the box to the bottom thereof, the terminal portion of the side being secured to the box.

t. As an article of manufacture, a container for holding powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and filled with the complexion powder, a sieve of fiexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box, and a protecting seal removably overlying the said sieve.

5. As an article of manufacture, a container for holding powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and filled with the complexion powder, a Sieve of iiexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box, and a protecting seal removably overlying the said sieve and having a side extending between the box body and the side of the said sieve.

6. As an article of manufacture, a container for holding powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and lilled with powder, a sieve of flexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box, and a compensating means for the sieve to take up slack therein as the container is emptied of its powder.

7. As an article of manufacture, a container for holding a powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and filled with powder, a sieve of flexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box, and a compensating ring held loosely within the box body at the inner surface of the side of the sieve, the top of the latter extending over the upper edge of the ring. y

8. As an article of manufacture, a container for holding powder and comprising a box having a removable cover and filled with the complexion powder, a sieve of flexible material extending over the top of the powder in the box, the sieve having its side extending loosely down on the inner face of the side of the box, the end of the sieve side being fastened to the box, and a protecting seal removably overlying the said sieve and having a side extending betweenvthe box body and the side of the said sieve, the said seal having tabs at the margin of its side, the tabs being fastened to the outer face of the box body.

JAMES MACDONALD.

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